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" Postmodern tendencies in contemporary Arab American novel "
Ibrahim Azizi
Yang, Lingyan
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803510
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TL48303
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1702717219; 3716218
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Pul, Hippolyt Akow Saamwan
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Postmodern tendencies in contemporary Arab American novel\ Ibrahim AziziYang, Lingyan
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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2015
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Ph.D.
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English
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2015
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184
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Committee members: Orchard, Christopher; Slater, Thomas
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-94765-6
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This dissertation studies postmodernist tendencies in the narrative style and thematic structure of the novels of three contemporary Arab American novelists: Laila Halaby, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Rabih Alameddine. Reading these texts from postmodernist perspectives shows that while many readers of the Arab American novel are tempted to see this tradition in terms of postcoloniality and otherness, Arab American novelists employ urgent postmodern tendencies which, while maintaining their distinctiveness, relate them to a larger critical landscape and readership. Moving from a postmodernist political awareness and cultural relativism in Halaby’s and Abu-Jaber’s novels, my study argues that contemporary Arab American novel reaches a fully developed postmodernist attitude with the novels of Rabih Alameddine whose experimental and self-reflective novels point to a more complicated Arab American novel that moves away from cultural translation.
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Comparative literature; American literature; Ethnic studies; Literary translation; Audience; Postmodernism; Novels; Attitudes; Politics; Otherness
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Arab american literature;Arab american novel;Contemporary arab american novel;Postmodern novel;Postmodernism;Postmodernist literary theory
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Yang, Lingyan
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EnglishIndiana University of Pennsylvania
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